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May Book Club

  • Books on the Hill 1 Holywell Hill St Albans, England, AL1 1ER United Kingdom (map)

For May our booksellers were set the task of choosing a book with the theme of Action & Adventure. So this month we have decided to read A Hundred Million Years and a Day by Jean-Baptiste Andrea.

These book clubs will be held in the shop and are suitable for ages 16+ years.

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About the book-

A Hundred Million Years and a Day is a pocket-sized epic adventure story of a professor's journey to an Alpine glacier. When he hears a story about a huge dinosaur fossil locked deep inside an Alpine glacier, university professor Stan finds a childhood dream reignited. Whatever it takes, he is determined to find the buried treasure. But Stan is no mountaineer and must rely on the help of old friend Umberto, who brings his eccentric young assistant, Peter, and cautious mountain guide Gio. Time is short: they must complete their expedition before winter sets in. As bonds are forged and tested on the mountainside, and the lines between determination and folly are blurred, the hazardous quest for the Earth’s lost creatures becomes a journey into Stan’s own past. This breathless, heartbreaking epic-in-miniature speaks to the adventurer within us all.